Pulihora and Egg Scramble

Today is one of those days when I am missing home. I don't want to eat anything I am cooking. Missing mom's cooking. But what can you do when you mom is not with you...you still have to eat!!! So I am making Pulihora or Puligora or Pullaharam. Well...this means nothing but "Sour food" or "Sour Rice".
                     This is basically Indian style fried rice with tamarind juice (the sour part). I made scrambled eggs along with it. You can just eat it by itself but I just made it anyway Indian style Scrambled Egg . This recipe is already on my blog. Click here to get there.

Pulihora (Cooked rice mixed with tamarind juice)

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups rice cooked
2. 3 tablespoons oil
3. 2 handfulls of cashew pieces
4. 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, mustard seeds, asafoetida, salt, turmeric, finely chopped ginger
5. 1 teaspoon each of urad dal, chana dal (soaked for 10 minutes), sesame seeds, sugar
6. 1 big or 2 green chillies chopped, few curry leaves, 2 dried red chillies
7. Cilantro for garnish
8. 1/2 cup of thick juice from 1 lemon sized tamarind

*Soak the tamarind in warm water and get the juice

In a pan heat the oil and add cumin, mustard seeds, urad dal, cashew pieces and let them splutter. Add the rest of the ingredients except tamarind juice and rice. Let them all get fried. Add the juice and simmer till the oil separates. Now add rice and mix well. Garnish with cilantro and let it cool a bit. Serve as is or with Scrambled Egg